| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.2

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Book Review

The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America. By Thomas S. Kidd. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xx, 392 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-300-11887-2.)
In The Great Awakening, Thomas S. Kidd ambitiously attempts to "provide a single, coherent narrative of evangelicalism's development in America over its first fifty years" (p. xvii). He partially succeeds. Kidd's story draws on primary and secondary sources that Awakening scholars have used for fifty years. Chronologically (1660s to 1783) and geographically (New England to the Carolinas) extensive, Kidd's account gathers extant interpretations of the Awakening into an impressive, scribal- like summary.	1
Kidd argues that eighteenth-century American revivalism "helped birth an enormously important religious movement, evangelicalism, which shows no sign of disappearing today" (p. xviii). To the evangelical imperatives of Reformation Protestantism, eighteenth- century American Christians added emphases on divine outpourings of the Holy Spirit and conversions that implanted within new believers an intense love for God. Revivals encapsulated those hallmarks and forwarded the newly created evangelicalism into the early republic. By ably summarizing where Awakening scholarship has been, Kidd reminds us how far we must go to satisfactorily understand the 1740s revivals.	. . .

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